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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Divulge information or secrets.
8. Standard temperature and pressure.
11. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
12. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
13. A passage with access only at one end.
14. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
15. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A native of ancient Troy.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
38. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
41. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
50. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
53. Roman goddess of night.
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1. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
2. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Being five more than sixty.
6. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
7. English monk and scholar (672-735).
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
10. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
18. Before noon.
20. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
22. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
38. Being one more than fourteen.
39. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
40. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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